CVE-2023-28121 is a critical vulnerability in the WooCommerce Payments plugin for WordPress, affecting versions 5.6.1 and lower. This flaw allows an unauthenticated attacker to impersonate an elevated user, such as an administrator, to gain full administrative access to the compromised WordPress site. With a CVSS score of 9.8 (CRITICAL) and an EPSS score indicating high exploitability, this vulnerability presents a severe risk. Exploit intelligence confirms the existence of public exploit modules, including Metasploit and Nuclei templates, and media coverage indicates active exploitation in the wild. The significant community discussion and media attention highlight the urgency of patching this vulnerability.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
>= 4.8.0, < 4.8.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:automattic:woocommerce_payments:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:* | ||
>= 5.0.0, < 5.0.4CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:automattic:woocommerce_payments:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:* | ||
>= 5.1.0, < 5.1.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:automattic:woocommerce_payments:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:* | ||
>= 5.2.0, < 5.2.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:automattic:woocommerce_payments:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:* | ||
>= 5.5.0, < 5.5.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:automattic:woocommerce_payments:*:*:*:*:*:wordpress:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.